Sandra Cisneros Quotes

I'm a witch woman--high on tobacco and holy water. I'm a woman delighted with her disasters. They give me something to do. A profession of sorts...I have the magic of words. The power to charm and kill at will.

Sandra Cisneros

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• Water
• Magic
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• Witch

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• The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Important
  • Most
  • Destructive

• Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life of its own. It develops, and it becomes something else.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Life
  • Always
  • Air

• Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do. It's why Nike is Nike, it's why Apple is Apple, it's why Walt Disney built Disney World and it's why Vince McMahon makes a billion dollars.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • World
  • Why
  • Game

• When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Musicians

• Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Know
  • Me
  • Wants

• As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.

  

  Kajol
  • Work
  • You
  • Expectations

• There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Light
  • End
  • Train

• My parents separated when I was 2, and my dad always lived in Chicago and my mother in L.A. I'd go back and forth and sometimes spend the summer with my dad, but L.A. was home.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Home
  • Mother
  • Parents

• Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Hollywood
  • Horrible
  • Satire

• This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Love
  • Power
  • Miracles

• We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.

  

  Barry White
  • Music
  • Beginning
  • Baby

• I think that's how most families are, really. Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • World
  • Family
  • Think

• I didn't have a business degree. I didn't have experience to work in somebody else's office. I never built or ran a department. So I was on this journey, and when the time came to make a decision, I was just going with my gut.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Time
  • Work
  • Business

• I would like to go down as the greatest receiver in this game. I'm not doing all this hard work for nothing.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Work
  • Game
  • Hard Work

• I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Kids
  • Moment
  • Have

• On films, you have the liberty of working out the details, the psychology, taking maybe more risks and takes than you can in television just because you can't be figuring things out on the day.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Day
  • Psychology
  • Details

• In my mind, I am extraordinarily handy. But what that means is when I attempt to fix something, there's usually a five-minute period of experimentation, followed by a five-minute period of frustration, followed by a frantic phone call to a professional.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Mind
  • Period
  • Professional

• Education must be based on the certainty that faults cannot be atoned for or blotted out, but must always have their consequences. At the same time, there is the other certainty that, through progressive evolution, by slow adaptation to the conditions of environment, they may be transformed.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Time
  • May
  • Education

• I definitely think my work comes from things that I liked as a kid, and things I still like now. Monsters and magic and museums and movies, a lot of things that start with 'M' for some reason.

  

  Brian Selznick
  • Work
  • Magic

• To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept, by giving the impression of a mathematical acceleration of rhythm, while the movement itself slowed . I first called this piece Mouvement symphonique. On reflection I found that a bit colorless. Suddenly, a rather romantic image crossed my mind, and when the work was finished, I wrote the title Pacific 231, which indicates a locomotive for heavy loads and high speeds (a type unfortunately disappeared, alas, and sacrificed to electric traction).

  

  Arthur Honegger
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Truth

• The Louvre stopped buying paintings in 1848, and neither the Metropolitan nor the Hermitage acquire contemporary material.

  

  Neil MacGregor

• What we all tend to complain about most in other people are those things we don't like about ourselves.

  

  William Wharton
  • People
  • Like
  • Ourselves

• What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Forever

• I'm a witch woman--high on tobacco and holy water. I'm a woman delighted with her disasters. They give me something to do. A profession of sorts...I have the magic of words. The power to charm and kill at will.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Giving
  • Water
  • Magic